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RISE TO POWER Version History ----------------------------- Version 1.00 - First public release. Lasted a week! Version 1.10 - Fixed several major bugs. Random numbers are now truly random, you can't marry twice, killed hostages are properly updated, and many minor bugs are also fixed. Despite my best efforts bugs still were in the end product (Ver 1.00). Version 1.20 - Fixed a few reported cosmetic problems and added a couple of twists to make life more interesting for players. Also fixed a bug in the fighting to the death routine. Players were continuing to hang around after they were killed. This has been fixed. The fighting to the death option has also been clarified and modified so you understand better what has happened. You can ALSO be killed even though you win! I have substantially revised the documentation and text files to make them more informative and useful. Added siege engines to the game also. Very, very limited release on this version. Version 1.30 - Added death of children due to plague as an event. Replaced most time delays with pauses. The delays were too short and were not allowing players to see the messages. Cured a bug which allowed players once they were in the Attack Keep menu to keep attacking forever. Added more messages to allow players who logged on to see what had happened to them without having to go to browse the news. Added UPGRADE.DOC and a separate HISTORY.DOC file to the package so sysops who already have the game can get essential information immediately instead of browsing through the SYSOP.DOC files. Cleaned up a few misspellings and cosmetic glitches. Version 1.40 - Added four new events of a positive nature. Added a Ransom Hostage option to the Visiting players menu. You can buy em back now but it's gonna cost you 25% of your land, gold and wheat! Fixed a bug in the Hostage Rescue routine which did not allow the wife to be rescued. Added an Erect Church option to the Barons Menu which allows you a way to raise reputation by 2, if you can afford the price tag! Modified sysop documentation to discuss port locking and how to reflect it in the dropfile. Changed the RTP.CTL format to include LOCKED BAUD and a few other things. Version 1.50 - Thanks to an enhanced doordriver add-on from Steven Lorenz the game no longer requires a fossil, now supports nonstandard interrupts, is now RIP aware (but still not a RIP game at this time), now supports up to 115,200 baud, now supports comports 0-15 and now supports PC Board 15. To implement these new features you will have to replace your old RTP.CTL file with the new one and modify it to fit your setup. Made a major change to the Assassin Option. You can no longer hire assassins which are kept on hand. Now you hire one for a single mission whose cost varies according to the mission you want performed and he performs it that instant. Should make this option much more fun. Fixed a bug in the maintenance program which was not placing Brigands on the map correctly and in the right quantities. Changed the rewards system to be more realistic based on what you did and how you did it. Corrected a few spelling errors and other cosmetic glitches while I was as it too. Version 1.60 - Corrected minor problem with the fighting brigand routine which did not pay the player the reward for killing them. Implemented a recommendation that a player only be allowed to perform the quest once per day. Also changed the output messages to explain to the player he was only wounded and NOT killed in the quest performance section. Fixed a small bug which kept allowing 0 deployed men to remain on map after a battle and did not allow a increase in skills after fighting another players deployed troops. Version 1.70 - With the more generous rewards came the problem that the first player on each day would hunt down all the brigands and get all the reward to the detriment of the other players who followed. As an Army marches on it's stomach so to speak I have added a routine which will make the above strategy costly. Now when you march with troops they eat more grain and will desert if not fed. This actually makes the game much more realistic as armies of that period were constrained on what they could do due to constant lack of supplies. The player instruction file has been upgraded to explain this to the players. The reward for brigands has been lowered to GF 30 each. The old level of GF 50 was just to high. Version 1.80 - Corrected minor bug which posted Child #1's name to the news when you named your second child. Changed the formula so that players traveling alone are not quite so invincible as they were. Changed it so that no extra wheat is deducted if you are traveling with 30 or less troops. Added a quit command to the coordinate input routine for the Attack Players keep option. Changed the Destroy Fief option to "Lay Siege" to reflect better what is really happening. ***Peasants now have children. Changed the harvest formula to give more realistic results. Now the land has a carrying capacity and you can have bad, average, good or great growing seasons. Wheat consumption is much greater then before to reflect the barter economy of that time. The higher on the pecking order you are the more wheat you get in compensation. Changed the economic model to be tougher and more like what you would expect in the 15th Century. Required land donation to the Church to raise your reputation 1 point has been decreased to 500 acres. Cost to erect a church has been increased to 1000 bushels of wheat in addition to the other normal requirements. Eliminated that annoying prompt that asked you how many men-at-arms you wanted to travel with even if you did not have any. Added a brigand restocking routine to the game in addition to the one in the MAINT.EXE file. Now brigands will be restocked before each player begins playing the game instead of just once daily. The first player each day made a habit of wiping the brigands out to the detriment of other players. This will now give other players a crack at the brigands as well. Fixed a bug which was allowing brigands to be placed on Keeps in addition to empty sectors. Version 1.81 - Maintenance release that fixed a bug which stated you successfully bribed or retreated from brigands and then killed you anyway. Who say's computers can't lie? Version 1.82 - Maintenance release fixing the following bugs accidentally introduced into the program with the version 1.80 major upgrade and implemented a few recommendations received from some users: 1. When a player died, committed suicide or was killed any deployed troops he had remained on the map even though he was removed. Fixed. 2. Once in awhile negative numbers were posted to the stats screen. Fixed. 3. Scoreboard was not being updated to remove players when they died at the end of the game. Fixed. 4. Allowed more space for the larger numbers involved with wheat and money due to the economic changes. 5. The name of the keep was not changed when your heir took over. Fixed. 6. When a player died and his heir took over he could not get back in the keep if he had locked it. Fixed. 7. When a player died and had an heir the program did not put him back in the home menu of the keep and did not refresh the screen. Fixed. Version 1.83 - Maintenance Release to fix a few bugs which were found and implement a few suggested changes: 1. Modified the harvest formula to take into account the peasant to land working ratio. More land does not now mean automatically larger harvests. You have to have enough workers too. 2. Added a routine to the Maint.exe program which automatically deletes all the old brigands from the map each day and then recalculates the correct quantities to put back on the map and places them randomly. This corrects the problem of too many brigands when several players dies off or are removed from the game. It also ensures brigands are moving around. 3. Changed the brigand restocking routine to limit the brigands to a maximum of 100 in anyone location on the map and 1000 overall. 4. Fixed the hostage routine so that players who are holding hostages and are killed, free those hostages and return them to the owning player. 5. The scoring routine had a small bug in it which did not report the province count correctly. Fixed. 6. Increased the levels of starting wheat in the RTPINIT and RTPEDIT programs to reflect the larger quantities now available. 7. The ranking system did not correctly show when you became Baron or King. Fixed. 8. Revised the STAT.ANS screen to allow for longer player names. 9. Revised the player instruction file to reflect recent changes. 10. Moved the routine for eliminating players who have not played for more then 10 days to the main program. This fixed a bug whereby players who were eliminated did not give up their titles or hostages. They do now. Version 1.90 - ALMOST A COMPLETE RE-WRITE OF THE GAME! Version 1.90A Major Improvements have been added to the game: (NOTE: A reset of the game will be required!) 1. Thanks to the invaluable contributions of ANSI artist Violet Stymacks there is much more ansi art to illustrate key segments of the game. 2. The "5" key on the number pad replaces the "R" key when performing recon on the main or mini-map. Now when you Hit the "5" key you will perform a recon of the selected space next to you. 3. Enhanced the recon command to give the same movement options as you now have in moving around. 4. The mini-map is now larger. You can see 2 spaces in each direction now. 5. Added a new opening screen. 6. Added some new settings to the RTPEDIT program which will now allow you to control the number of brigands per man-at-arms, number of brigands per space on map and the max quantity of brigands allowed on the entire map at anyone time. 7. Fixed a small bug in the fighting brigands/ deployed soldiers routine which kept you from eliminating just 1 brigand/deployed soldier on occassion. 8. The recon function will now sometimes give the player a false sense of security by saying that a space is empty when it is not this way they can't always duck everything on the map. 9. Fixed a bug that was not updating deployed soldiers so they would recognize when an heir took over from his father. 10. Revised the player instruction file to explain the new items and clarify a few old options. 11. If you fight to the death OR destroy a enemy player and his troops away from his Keep you will now get all his remaining gold and wheat even if he has an heir. 12. Changed the routines to make sure that players always have at least 100 acres of land and at least 5 peasants so that they always have a small amount of gold and wheat coming in to them. 13. Raiding is now more profitable then before. 14. When you duel a human player you can lose some land if you are defeated or gain some land if you win now. 15. Cleaned up a few obscure errors which cropped up in rare and unusual situations I had not anticipated. 16. Because of their length I have now added a ZIP compressed copy of the instructions to the game package so that it can be placed in your on your BBS for download by interested players. 17. Apparently it was possible to duel your self after becoming King. Fixed. Thanks to Jay Mottern for the bug report. 18. Ranks were not being updated when the heir took over. Fixed. Thanks to Jay Mottern for the bug report. 19. When you are out of wheat virtually everyone leaves at once. I modified this so the people leave or die more slower now so it gives you more of a chance to recover. 20. Fixed a bug that caused players to be moved to the far end of the map after making a successful assassination and leving the Kings Keep menu for the main map. 21. Changed it so that when a player dies his heir loses all titles ABOVE the level of count and the Computer King and Computer Barons you deposed resume their old positions/titles. 22. Version 1.90A is a last minute addtion of some code. A few copies of 1.90 got out before I was able to catch them so 1.90A is fix show the difference of versions. Version 1.91 Major Improvements have been added to the game: 1. A new custom ANSI art opening screen courtesy of that superb ANSI artist Michael Arnett has been added. 2. A modification has been made to the door driver portion of the program to correct a bug which was locking up OS/2 systems. 3. On game start-up 25 brigands are now added to the map regardless if there is a player present or not. Thanks to Bob Lucas for this change based on his recommendation/bug report. 4. Fixed a bug which was allowing people to sell wheat they did not have. Several reported this problem. Should have seen this one myself (blush.......) 5. Added a routine which kills off relatives being held hostage when the player they belong to dies. 6. Added a "wheat" status line to the main map display and deleted the old "your troops are consuming more wheat" message which many found aggrevating. Also the wheat status line turns red when the level drops to 100 bushels or below. Thanks go to Jay Mottern for a bug report and list of recommendations. 7. Reduced the reward for brigands to GF25 per head taken to balance the game better. 8. Changed the combat formula to make battles more shorter and a little more realistic. Thanks go to Jay Mottern for this change. 9. Brigands are more likely now to take a bribe then fight, if given the chance. Several players wanted a kinder and gentler set of brigands to have to deal with at the beginning. This is the best I can do to help out without affecting play balance too much... 10. There is now a 50% chance of successfully retreating. It was only 40% before. Changed for same reason shown in #9 above. 11. Almost all messages are private now. This should reduce the confusion over what is happening and to whom. 12. The requirements to become count have been changed to 400 men and 1000 acres of land for better game play. 13. Deductions of wheat for marching troops only affects troops OVER 30 instead of all of them as before. See text instruction file for further information. 14. Revised the main menu to add 1 new selection and changed another. The news file was getting too big so now 2 news files are maintained. The current days new is kept in one file and yesterdays news is kept in another. The maint.exe handles the transfer and renaming of the files on a daily basis. It VERY important that you only run your maint ONCE daily and preferably after midnight. Thanks to Steve Smith for a bug report which forced this change. 15. Changed the formula to make missions a little more easier to perform. For many, especially early on they were just too tough. 16. Fixed a bug in the player-to-player fighting routine on the map which kept casualties from updating the other players data file. Thanks go to Joel Downer for his bug report on this. 17. The text instruction file has been updated to reflect these changes. 18. The main program and maintenance program now create an error log file if an error occurs. Many people requested this addition. 19. Please not that as of June 1st 1994 my FIDO number will be changing to 1:391/3010. Version 1.92 - Maintenance Release which fixed the following bugs: 1. Fixed the infamous runtime error 105 problem (Finally!) introduced in version 1.91 by mistake. 2. Fixed the runtime error 100 problem which was also introduced by accident in version 1.91. 3. Fixed a problem with negative numbers being shown in the attributes on rare occasions. 4. Corrected some misspellings. 5. Added a "Sample.CTL" file to the package to show what it should look like when you are done editing it.